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Caló (Spanish:; Catalan:; Galician:; Portuguese:) is a language spoken by the Spanish and Portuguese Romani ethnic groups. It is a mixed language (referred to as a Para-Romani language in Romani linguistics) based on Romance grammar, with an adstratum of Romani lexical items, [2] through language shift by the Romani community.
According to Chicano artist and writer José Antonio Burciaga: . Caló originally defined the Spanish gypsy dialect. But Chicano Caló is the combination of a few basic influences: Hispanicized English; Anglicized Spanish; and the use of archaic 15th-century Spanish words such as truje for traje (brought, past tense of verb 'to bring'), or haiga, for haya (from haber, to have).
calé — a Romani person; from Caló ' Romani, speaker of Romani ', see caló below. caló — Caló language, also black, dark-colored; the word is possibly related to Sanskrit kanlanka ' blemish, macula ' and/or Ancient Greek kelainós ' black '.
The article Calo (Chicano slang) is not a duplicate of Caló (Chicano) * DO NOT REDIRECT * There are reasons for the existence of these two separate articles, i.e., primarily the difference on the spelling of the word "Calo" vs "Caló"; and the former's desire to maintain a list of Chicano slang / Calo words and expressions while the later desires to "not" maintain such a list.
The 2003 International Encyclopedia of Linguistics from Oxford University Press, 2015 Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages[(here they cite Lewis et al. 2014 as their source) and the 2005 Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics all say only 10,000 speakers in Brazil. I think these sources are reasonably reliable and the Lewis source ...
Cheli is a Spanish-language juvenile sociolect or jargon diatopically restricted to the Madrid area, [1] developed in the 1970s, [2] primarily associated to the post-Francoist counterculture. [3] It drew influence from the hampa and drug-dealing jargons, and it has been noted for Spanishizing Caló and English words as well as rescuing archaic ...
The European Portuguese words gajo (masculine) and gaja (feminine) originated in the Romani/Caló and are used in everyday language to refer informally to a man or a woman, in a usage similar to "guy" in English.
This is a list of Spanish words that come from Indo-Aryan languages.It is further divided into words that come from Persian, Romani and Sanskrit.Some of these words have alternate etymologies and may also appear on a list of Spanish words from a different language.